Mood:  quizzical

well, I have 2 New Year's resolutions, and I figured if I start now, I'll have messed them up before New Year Day even gets here:

the first, is to lose 30 pounds...I have a treadmill on the way to assist me in that goal; hopefully it will wake me up each morning and provide painfree and strategic liposuction, but I suspect I'll actually have to use the thing. Wish me luck!

the second is to post early and often on this blog and get it linked on more places and actually develop some interesting things to say...it is very easy to start up a blog and have it fall to the wayside; many of my writerly type friends have fallen into the "I'll get to it someday pit" except for one friend who gets paid for his blog (nice work if you can get it). And, after all, I think I do have a couple of interesting things to say over and above a simple chronicle of my life and times.

 At least, I thought I had some interesting things to say before I took a few minutes (okay an hour) off this morning while listening to the gentle 45 mph breeze outside my lab door to persue some science blogs; geez, I suck.

See what I mean at http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/12/the_shock_value_of_science_blo.php

and at http://ambivalentacademic.blogspot.com/2008/11/lessons-learned-this-week.html

and at http://lablemminglounge.blogspot.com/

  more tomorrow, or maybe even later today!